Sierra
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A rugged range of mountains
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sierra is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 563(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 1.2K
- UYUruguay1 in 586
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sierra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 394 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)
≈87,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sierra- in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A rugged range of mountains.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sierra is read(measured from records)
Sierra is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English32%
A rugged range of mountains.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
saw (tool)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sierra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 563 | 84 | Sierra | 187 |
| BR Brazil | 81,206as Serra | 1 in 2.6K | 81K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 40,526 | 1 in 1.2K | 41K | Sierra | 199 |
| US United States | 35,770 | 1 in 9.3K | 85K | Sierra- | 394 |
| AR Argentina | 13,399 | 1 in 3.4K | 13K | Sierra | 95 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sierra | 51 |
| UY Uruguay | 5,777 | 1 in 586 | 5.8K | — | 62 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sierra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
da serra, montanhes; mountaineer; Bologna, Torino, Genova, Roma, Livomo, Tunisie
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
alternative letter-case form of Sierra of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, mountain-range
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kalnu grēda
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Justo Sierrab. 1848MXMexican writer, journalist, poet and political figure (1848–1912)
- Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierrab. 1875ESSpanish general (1875-1951)
- Gregory Sierrab. 1937USAmerican actor (1937-2021)
- Carlos Osoro Sierrab. 1945ESSpanish priest and theologian (1945-)
- Katt Williamsb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian and actor (born 1971)
- Sierra Boggessb. 1982USAmerican actress and singer
- Mario Casasb. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Iván Marcanob. 1987ESnot in their usual nameSpanish professional footballer
- Nadine Sierrab. 1988USAmerican operatic soprano
- Óscar Casasb. 1998ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor and model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41K | #113 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41K | #113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 36K | #957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 36K | #973 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 26K | #1,227 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 13K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,062 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 84 | #36 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sierra mean, and where does it come from?
- A rugged range of mountains. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Sierra?
- In Spain, the national register counted 40,526 people named Sierra, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- In which country does Sierra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Sierra in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sierra.
What do you want to know about Sierra?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sierraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sierra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.